#deafmessanger

Found this cool notebook while on holiday in Prague. A bunch of pages are made of weird things like letters, maps, book pages and postcards, etc. Really interesting. #art #artist #doodle #sketch #sketchbook #skull #anatomy #bone #humanskull #profile #pen #ink #postcard #weird #strange #goth #gothic #death #creepy #unique #deafmessanger

About the Artist: Deafmessanger I remember when a friend of mine told me: "Hey Kucin – this is not correct (looking at one of my postcards saying – Made from Prague)" and I told her:" No this is correct – I didn't mean to write – postcard from Prague, or Made in Prague...I meant to write – Made from Prague". Then I explained to her that the piece she is holding in her hand is made out of a magazine – the one I found laying on a street. And that's where most of the pictures in my work come from. Sometimes I found them just lying on a bench in a park or in a bin for recycled paper. However I can't just write down “Made from Prague” anymore, coz it would not be true. I started to collect things from everywhere I go. Last year I found a pile of old books dumped by the thrash bin in the city of Barcelona and I took them back to Prague and used the pages to fill the inner parts of my diaries. Than I got an e-mail from a girl from Spain asking me how come she found a page from book written in Catalonian language in the diary she bought in Prague. During my trip to South-east Asia I started to collect playing cards. You can find them everywhere in the streets. I got so many of them in Luang Prabang in Lao as well in Phnom Phen in Cambodia. Lao and Khmer people seems to be obsessed with playing cards and they are even more obsessed with throwing them away – making their towns look like big casino tables. At the end of my trip I had a big envelope filled with those cards and when I came back “home” I put them in between the pages of my books. I love to go to Flee markets. I buy so much stuff there. Too much to use it all for my work – sometimes buying things I don't need at all – and then when I come to my workshop and put them all on my desk I keep asking myself: “Why did U buy this or that?”. So my workshop looks like a flee market itself but I love it this way. I'm just a bit scared of movingout – I would need a big truck to take it all with me. The wooden boxes I sometimes use as cases for my books come from flee markets as well. I love cigar boxes. Not that I'm a passionate smoker – the opposite is the truth, but I love how simple and beautiful they are. Sometimes I spray stencils on them – leaving just part of the original design visible, but sometimes I just leave them the way they are – coz I know they wont look any better when I touch them with my sprays.